By Emily Villano November 19, 2012
On Friday, November 9, thirty or so Yale students and community members crowded together in a classroom in William Harkness Hall for what was billed as an “interdisciplinary panel” on “HIV in Transgender Communities.” …
Posted in Yale & New Haven • Read the full post »
March 27, 2012
Earlier this month, on March 8th, countries across the world celebrated International Women’s Day. Browsing the IWD website, I was surprised, and interested, to see a short historical timeline of the event, revealing an …
Posted in Opinion • 2 Responses »
February 19, 2012
In the Sex Week at Yale (SWAY) 2012 keynote address, famed alum and feminist agitator Ann Olivarius ’77 turned at the end of her speech to the power of the erotic: “Treating your sexuality as …
Posted in Politics, Yale & New Haven • Read the full post »
February 6, 2012
This past fall, the primarily Yale-comprised Ward 1 of New Haven elected Sarah Eidelson ’12 to represent them on the Board of Aldermen. Last week, Broad Recognition sat down with Eidelson to discuss her advocacy for LGBTQ …
Posted in Yale & New Haven • Read the full post »
January 27, 2012
In a statement released Friday by a representative from an image consulting firm, Patrick Witt ’12 denied allegations instigated by a Thursday New York Times article which asserted that it was an …
Posted in Yale & New Haven • 3 Responses »
January 27, 2012
Yale quarterback Patrick Witt ’12 did not, in fact, choose to play the Harvard-Yale football game over the chance at a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, the New York Times reports Thursday. Rather, the Rhodes …
Posted in Yale & New Haven • 1 Response »
By EMILY VILLANO December 31, 2011
It seems fitting that in the four years leading up to 2011, the accolade of Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” went to a dictator, the ‘leader of the free world,’ the holder …
Posted in Opinion, Politics • Read the full post »
November 26, 2011
In her 1972 Women’s Art: A Manifesto, performance artist Valie Export writes, “man has defined the image of woman for both man and woman…the arts can be understood as a medium of our self-definition.” …
Posted in Arts, Politics • 1 Response »
May 15, 2011
Warning: Use of birth-control pills may lower your relationship quality, risk your children’s health, and decrease your sexual attractiveness.
Here’s a tip—so does unwanted pregnancy.
The above claims headlined the Wall Street Journal’ …
Posted in Sex & Health • 3 Responses »